Posted on 12/28/2006 5:37:50 AM PST by TexKat
Why this concern over a dignified death that will spare him being beaten to death in prison? My prayers are for his eternal soul; that Saddam will understand Christ's message of love and conscience, repentance and forgiveness; and that he will repent sincerely and completely before he dies so that when he comes face to face with his Maker, he will recognize Him and cry out, "Yeshua!", not "Allah."
Or this, from the Orange County Chapter of FR (click here):
"Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside Hitler, Stalin, Lenin and Ceausescu in the pantheon of failed, brutal dictators and the Iraqi people are well on their way to freedom."
-- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Apr. 9, 2003.
Not trying to argue, either...I am just pointing out what my understanding is regarding why many of the officials of the RCC are against capital punishment. Also, I'm not trying to speak for them in any way. :-)
Hope you had a Merry Christmas and that you're lining up a great New Year, my FRiend! :-)
Saddam could be executed within days: U.S. official
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The Iraqi government has told U.S. officials that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein could be executed within the next few days, a senior Bush administration official said on Thursday.
"I've heard that it's going to be a couple more days, probably," the official said while Bush took a holiday break at his Texas ranch.
He said he had heard from U.S. officials in Baghdad that the execution would not be Thursday U.S. time or Friday Baghdad time. "It's going to be maybe another day or so," the official said.
He said the government of Iraq would most likely inform U.S. officials about the timing of the execution when it gets closer.
The U.S. official's comments were at odds with those of Iraqi officials who earlier backed away from suggestions Saddam would be hanged within a month. The officials said that the hanging would occur within 30 days only if Iraq's president issues a decree it takes place immediately, which seemed unlikely.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061228/wl_nm/iraq_usa_saddam_dc_3
How are you anonymoussierra? I will be waiting to hear from him.
Just finding it awfully difficult to believe old Saddam wrote that.
I am well. How is your dear son? I am happy you are well.
Thank you.
Be sure it is a final 'goodbye'.
Saddam Hussein urged Iraqis to embrace "brotherly coexistence" and not to hate U.S.-led foreign troops in a goodbye letter posted on a website yesterday, a day after Iraq's highest court upheld his death sentence and ordered him hanged within 30 days... But he also voiced support for the Sunni Arab-dominated insurgency, saying: "Long live jihad and the mujahedeen." He urged Iraqis to be patient and rely on God's help in fighting "against the unjust nations."Yeah, that makes sense. Typical Moslem doubletalk.
Can we hang Abadabadoo too??
Pray for W and Our Troops
Hope your Christmas was Merry and Bright!
Obviously things have changed since the epoch of the Crusades and then remember WWII , when the Vatican sold itself out to placate fascism. Nothing has changed much since then, now the Vatican placates Islamofascists. The learning curve for this institution is at present, just a bit too steep.
Like the U.S. Marines have said, Saddam should have been shot in the hole where he was found, and the money for his trial distributed to those against whom genocide had been committed. But now the facts of his genocide hopefully will come to light as the trial on the genocide of the Kurds continues , of those who perpetrated the gassing of thousands. This is the activity that the Vatican sanctions by its ideology on the death penalty. They appear weak to those who live by the law of Sharia, and execute human beings at the drop of a hat, among them women who are guilty of nothing more than saying hello to a man who her family does not like.
I hope every Iraqui POS who was complicit in the genocide of the Kurds swings publicly, and that the photos of them swinging in the dry Iraqi wind be freely circulated among every Muslim community on the face of this earth, and a complete memorial addition of the same photos be presented to the Pope as a coffee table book.
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